Javier Diment outstanding penchant for psychological thriller tinged with bloodbath, eye-shutting images and eroticism has gained the South American director a place among the daring new directors of the genre (see: Beinase or The Sense of Fear). Even a Fangoria article compared Diment to the Japanese cinematic extremist Takashi Miike. The television filmmaker has been part of a retrospective in his native country focusing on horror and supernatural movies and has won some prestigious awards, recently for working with fellow Fernando Spiner for screenplay (Aballay, El Hombre Sin Miedo).
In his biggest project to date, Diment spools the terrifying story of metaphysical realms between the dead character Jorge and his undead friends heading to suffer the same fate in La Memoria Del Muerto (The Memory of the Dead). It is said that the story kicks off 49 days after Alicia’s husband’s death where she called forth Jorge’s friends to read the posthumous letter he left. Plotting with his bestfriend Santiago, Alicia performs ritualistic killing rampage in expense of the guests believing it will bring back the dead back to life. Genre elements full of dark and horrific images are all over the trailer and will surely haunt audiences even just by a peak of it. If the scene of a man diving to a hollow pool and eventually breaks his skull is not enough, wait for that last frame of a “woman” at 1:11. La Memoria Del Muerto written by Martin Blousson with performances by Rafael Ferro , Lola Berthetand Ana Celentano.
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